Improvement in trace-connection s



J. E. PEIRGE.

, Whifliletree.

No 59,258 Patented Oct. 30, 1866.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES E. PEIROE, OF WEST BOYLSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN TRACE- CONNECTlONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 59,258, dated October30, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES E. PErRoE, of West Boylston, in the county ofWorcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented an ImprovedWhiffletree and Trace Connection; and do hereby declare the same to befully described in the following specification and represented in theaccompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a top view, and Fig. 2 anend elevation, of it as applied to a whiffletree, it being shown inaclosed state. Fig. 3 is a top view, and Fig. 4 is an end elevation, ofit as open and ready for the reception of a trace.

A bent arm, A, extends from one end of a trace-receiving pin, 13, fixedin one end of a whiffietree, (l, and so as to project therefrom inmanner as represented. 4

A guard, D, formed as shown in the drawin gs, turns on the bent arm andcarries a springlatch, E, to catch upon an angular projection, F, orpart of the trace-pin B. The said pin is recessed or notched, as shownat a, close to the angular projection, and for the purpose of receivingthe guard a shield, b, which projects from the guard, enters the notchwhile the latch is in the act of being caught by the projection F. Thesaid shield 12 extends between the latch and the end of the whiflietree,and serves to prevent the trace while on the pin from contact With thelatch. The shield thus completely isolates the trace from the latch.Were it not for such shield so arranged with respect to the latch, andoperating with the guard to keep the trace on the pin, such trace whilein use would be likely to disconnect the latch from the pin, in whichcase, were the guard to be thrown up by any cause, the trace might slip011 the pin.

A portion, 0, of the guard is projected in front of the latch, andserves as a rest for one finger of a persons hand while in the act ofunlatchin g the latch from the projection F.

To accomplish the separation of the two, he has only to pinch theportion 0 and the lower part of the latch between his thumb andforcfinger until he may have moved the latch sufficiently to enable himto lift the guard.

From the above it will be seen that the said guard, as constructed,performs several functions-that is, it serves with the latch to hold thetrace on the pin. The partor shield b answers to keep the trace fromdisconnecting the latch from the pin. The-part c serves-as a rest forone finger while another or the thumb of the same hand maybe in the actof moving.

the latch.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. The combination as Well as the arrange- JAMES E. PEIROE.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, SAMUEL N. PIPER.

